The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-09-13
Flowers for Winter.

Now is the time to get them ready, T'e plant
them out in summer to get them strong, sturdy and
well rooted, also to keep them clean and save labor
In watering them. But we must now get all the
tender buds lifted and potted SO as to give them
chance to get well rooted before winter sets in.
These will include geraniums, hehotrope, abutons,
bouvardias mahernia and the like.
Soils and Pots-Frst get your soil ready. Let the
loamy, turfy soil chopped mot sifted) fine and some
old manure rotted to almost earthly neness If this
seems rather stiff add some sharp sand. Then pots
Have them washed clean then with some bits of
broken pots, chopped brickbats, pounded rotten
stone sfted cinders or other open material, drain
the pots and strew little chaly manure halfrotted
lea es, chopped moss or tie rough part of he oamy
fibre over the drainage to keep out the earth from
choking it.
Lifting and Potting.-A digging-fork is fen better
than spade in lifting. Lift very carefully, break
away the loose earth till the ball is small enough to
settle comfortably into the pot you have prepared
for it, but preserve all the sorts intact if possible
Use moderately small pots. Plants root better in
small than they do in large pots add it is far better
to have to shift plant from small into a larger
pot than from large in a smaller one. Pot firmlo
and leave deep space to be filed up with water,
or, ifneed be later mulching,
Condition Of the PlaIsts- Don't bother with weak
or lanky plants, and avoid those in rank growth
but take the stockiest you can find. You should
have helped to make them stocky by cutting them
back some weeks ago
Treatment After Potting.-Set them near tooe;her
in some family shaded place for days till they
viii have partly recovered from the check, sprinkle
them overhead two or three times day, and under
no circumstances let them get dry at the root. But
don't let them stay crowded together, nor in the
shade a day longer than is necessary to keep them
from whiting. bed of coal ashes is capital place
to set the pots on, but If such is nconvenient, just
set them on the ground or plunged two or three
inches into it. 1t is not well to plunge pots to their
brim at this time of year.
Plants we may not yet lift are carnations, Scotch
pinks, Marguerites, chrysanthemums pansies,
volets and roses. These may be left as long as we
do not fear frost,
Sow seeds of Miles hybrid spiral ignonette red
white purple candytuft, Collinsia verna (of this
years, 1897 crops only, other will grow,) Lobb's
trop&olum, Drummond phloX, meteor marigolds
and petunas. Sow in pots or boxes for window
use.
In frames sow panses, mignonette, forget-me nots
and candyut Or, if you have these plants al
ready growing plant them out into frames and
good soil. And you sowed seed of polyanthuses
last spring, set out the plants also other hardy
primroses and double daisies into cold frame.
Callas-If your plants did not bloom well last
winter, shake them out of their pots now and pot
the bulbs" singy, putting big 'bulb'' into five
inch pot, not larger in rich turfy loan. No matter
if its leaves shall not be as numerous or large as in
big pot, you will get more flowers.
Pelargoniums. get my first plants from fall
struck cuttings; pot these in now, and when rooted
pot them off sngly and afterwards as they need it
ill siX-inch pots are reached and which are large
enough for any Pinch and keep close to the glass
in frame, window or greenhouse.
CalceolaTias and Cinerarlas. Mine now are in
three-inch pots in a cold frame raised close up to
the glass which is whitewashed to shade the plants
from sun ,hine ventilated freely at all times and in
the bottom Of the frames are strewed tobacco stems
Never let the plants get dry